finn's review of Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach
this book is horrible. it's unbearably sexist (including a date rape that had absolutely nothing to do with the plot and was perpetrated by the protagonist), racist (apparently the idea of a mixed-race environmental utopia was too much for the author to imagine, so he segregated all the black residents of the pacific northwest into a ghetto in oakland, which he named soul city), and boring (going on and on about details that have no relevance to real-life environmentalism, like the construction of plastic tube homes and using logs as bumpers for diesel logging trucks). it wasn't very radical in its ideas about politics, war (apparently men missed aggression so much they have to play war games with one another), or even how to go about saving the planet. overall i guess it would be fine for people who are pretty happy with modern society, including its sexism, racism, and manufacturing, like reading about sex and drugs and hopelessly naive accounts of communal living, and think some sol...more
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